Climate activists disrupt Virginia GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin speech on Sept. 11 remembrance

Climate activists crashed Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's lunch keynote at a Federalist Society education event in downtown Washington, D.C., on Thursday, interrupting his remarks about remembering the victims and heroes of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The Republican, who sailed into office on the strength of parental demands to control their children's education amid COVID-19 restrictions, was discussing how he just came from Arlington National Cemetery when a small mob of activists approached the stage and started chanting.

They called him a "climate criminal" and chanted "no more gas, no more oil, keep the carbon in the soil," as the crowd responded by booing them. "There is nothing more disrespectful to our nation than what you are doing," Youngkin scolded the activists.

Security pulled them out but they chanted briefly in the hallway of Washington's historic Mayflower Hotel.

"Today is a day to think about America," Youngkin resumed, drawing applause.  "There is evil in the world."